Presentation:

Maria Grace, six time BRAG Medallion Honoree, #1 Best-selling Historical Fantasy author Maria Grace has her PhD in Educational Psychology and is a 16-year veteran of the university classroom where she taught courses in human growth and development, learning, test development and counseling. https://austenvariations.com/maria-grace/ (Per her website)

Capture Your Reader in Your World

Readers read for escape and to feel. The means of escape and the feelings they desire depend on the genre, but in the end, readers want the same thing: An immersive world and characters to lose themselves in.

As we concentrate on characters and plot, it can be easy to short change the setting. But when that happens, the real world too easily distracts readers from the story world. Creating immersive, atmospheric settings is a first step to creating a world that the reader doesn’t want to leave.

In this workshop we will cover how to develop engrossing worlds through the use of POV, narrative distance, research (and how not to get lost in that rabbit hole!), sensory details, and the creation of deliberate memory tags for readers.